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Three Super League players have been charged by the RFL Match Review Panel following incidents in the fourth round of the Tetley's Challenge Cup.
Brett Ferres of Huddersfield Giants has been charged with making a Grade E dangerous throw on St Helens player Jonny Lomax in the 65th minute on Sunday April 6. If found guilty, he could get between a four and eight game ban.
London Broncos player Nick Slyney has been charged with a Grade B dangerous throw on Catalan Dragons player Jason Baitieri in the second minute of the tie on Friday April 4.
Scott Wheeldon of Castleford Tigers has been charged with a Grade A striking with the head on Batley Bulldogs player Adam Gledhill in the 12th minute of the tie on Sunday April 6.
Slyney and Wheeldon have until 11.00am on Tuesday to submit Early Guilty Pleas. Ferres does not have the option of submitting an Early Guilty Plea and will appear before an RFL Disciplinary Tribunal on Tuesday evening.


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First of all, the prize of the night I think goes to the young kid in a wheelchair who, while his friends formed a wall around him to guard him against flailing bodies, tilted his head back and sang along to every line of "Born to Die."
Never mind that MDC slowed the song down to half-speed, or that they changed the lyrics to "I Remember," or that they said fuck it to the iconic bass intro to "John Wayne Was a Nazi," or that they sang entirely different lyrics to "Chock Full of Shit," or that they kinda mangled "Chicken Squawk" or that in fact they played their first five songs acoustically. MDC were still great, and despite revisiting just about all of side one of their first and best album, 1982's Millions of Dead Cops, they didn't have the pathetic reliving-the-past feel like so many other old punk bands still on the touring circuit today.
Personal data: Dave Dictor is almost as old as my dad.
"I spent most of the late '90s in a methamphetamine haze," Dictor announced to the crowd, about 4 or 5 songs into the set. "Walking around the streets of San Francisco, wearing this big yellow rubber poncho, pushing a shopping cart. Those were my peeps. But you know, I got into rehab"—spitting out the word like it was an obscenity—"and got myself straightened out."
How could we have not guessed that Dave Dictor was gay? "America's So Straight," "My Family is a Little Weird," his flamboyant costumes and incessant prancing around on stage in the '80s? "There've been people coming up to me tonight," he told the crowd, "reminding me about playing the Cotati Cabaret in 1988. And apparently I took all my clothes off, and traded underwear with a girl." See?
Personal data: One of the first songs I learned on the guitar was the entire flamenco solo intro to "Chock Full of Shit" from Millions of Damn Christians.
Even when MDC ditched their acoustic guitars and started playing loud, it still wasn't, uh, "loud." But listen to their records—they're not loud either. MDC: the sheep in wolf's clothing. They always were kind of a hippie band. The message of health food and sustainability in the liner notes to the Millions of Dead Children 7″? Ahead of its time.
Some guy brought a zucchini the size of a bazooka from the gardens and stood in front of the stage, beaming. It wasn't long before it wound up smashed and battered on the floor under the shoes of the pit. "My mom always told me not to play with food," quipped Dictor. The pit wasn't too out of control.
Personal data: One of the first shows I ever went to, at the River Theater in Guerneville, was MDC playing with All, Nuisance, and a very young and very stoned opening band called Green Day. It was September 23, 1989. I was 13.
I wandered outside near the set's end. MDC has a reputation for playing long-ass sets, and I figured I'd try to stave off potential boredom. Plus there was some crazy acoustic music emanating from the campfire, like there usually is, so I walked over and there it was: a bongo player, a trombone player, a saxophone player, and a beatboxer. A small kitten meowed along. The Boogie Room is amazing. Amazing, I say!
Quotes of the Night:
Young punk girl, with a cigarette, to a mellow-looking guy in blonde dreadlocks: "Hey! Are you the hippie who told me not to smoke?"
40-year-old guy to MDC's drummer, before the show: "I graduated in '86, and I listened to you every day! You guys are the best, man!"
Guy to another guy, outside after the show: "Consider that you might not be allowed to come back here, okay?! Do you realize what you're doing?"
Girl, leaning out of her car: "Hey, do you want to punch me in the face for $8?"
And it's not a quote, but I'm always heartened—I don't know why, I'm too young to legitimately care—to see a Jak's jacket in the throng:
I bought a Millions of Dead Cops cassette for $5 and walked back to my car. Came home and listened to Horace Silver. The next morning, I smelled like shligs and had weeds in my hair. Right on.
.Live Review: MDC at the Boogie Room
Lady Gaga would never be invited to the White House. There's no way to tell if she's smuggling in a bomb in that egg encounter suit.

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The slot machine, a popular game in casinos, was nicknamed the one armed bandit because it originally started out with a lever that the player pulled to spin the 3 reels within the casing. These reels each had 10 symbols that showed through a display window one symbol of each reel at a time. If 3 identical symbols showed at the same time as a result of one pull of the lever, the player won. The chances of this were slim so more often than not the player lost their money. This contributed to the creation of the nickname.
The very first slot machine, named the Liberty Bell, was created in 1895 by Charles Fey, an immigrant from Germany. The original symbols that were displayed on each reel consisted of playing card suits, a star, a horseshoe and a liberty bell. With the demand for slot machines high, an offer was made to purchase the rights to the production and distribution of these games of chance by a gambling supply company. However, Charles Fey refused to sell so new versions of the Liberty Bell had to be created. One of these new versions was built in 1907 by Herbert Mills and it was called the Operator Bell. He was the first one to use fruit symbols for his slot machine.
Each pull of a lever a player was taking a chance on losing there money so more and more its gambling nature began to cause problems for the manufacturers. Gambling was frowned upon as much as the sale of liquor so these machines became illegal by 1910. Some manufacturers tried to hide the use of these devices by making them seem like vending machines. The Bell- Fruit Company came up with a slot machine that dispensed sticks of gum with every pull of the lever. This didn't work but instead made people view vending machines in a bad way. The anti-gambling views popularity began to be used by politicians to help with their campaign for office way into the thirties. Politicians would be seen smashing these machines to gain votes from those who despised gambling and saw it as criminal act. The famous criminal Bugsy Siegel added to the dislike of slot machines because he purchased a number of them to put into his hotel the Flamingo Hilton in Las Vegas. He put them into his hotel for a reason though. He was using them to keep the wives and girlfriends busy while their rich husbands gambled within his casino.
By the early 60's slot machines had gone electric and by the 70's microchips were added and the lever was removed by the 80's with more improved microchips that allowed the slot machines to work with just the press of a button.
As time went by the view of gambling with slot machines has improved to some degree with its popularity increasing. In fact, slots have increased in popularity today so much it brings in about 80% of a casino's income.
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My husband adores Thai food, so we often venture to local restaurants in search of a great Thai meal. We've found a few descent places, but none of them have really knocked our socks off. A few months ago I decided to teach myself some of the basics of Thai cuisine, so I could start cooking the dishes we love at home. I started with my husband's favorite Thai dish, Tom Kha Gai—spicy coconut chicken soup.
Preparing Thai food can be challenging, because some of the ingredients are pretty exotic. I'm lucky to live close to a Thai neighborhood here in Los Angeles, but for those of you who don't it can be tough getting hold of things like galangal and kaffir lime leaves. Kosher Thai cooking can present an even greater challenge; ingredients like red curry paste and fish sauce can be difficult to track down with a kosher hechsher. Red curry paste often contains shrimp, and fish sauce has anchovies, which presents a problem for some. Most Jews consider fish neutral, or pareve, but some kosher cooks will not mix fish with meat.
Because of these challenges, I decided to create my own Thai-style soup using everyday ingredients. I wanted to capture that delicious Thai flavor in a recipe that is accessible to everybody, whether or not you live close to an Asian market. The most exotic ingredient on the list is lemongrass, which is available in the produce section of most American grocery stores. If your market doesn't carry fresh lemongrass, it will likely carry lemongrass paste near the fresh herbs or in the Asian food section. If you can't track it down, don't worry—the soup will taste good without it, too. But if you can find the lemongrass, I highly recommend it– the herb has a distinctive flavor that really enhances the dish.
This soup is rich, creamy, spicy, subtly sweet, and full of flavor. If you've never tasted Thai soup before, you're in for a treat… it's really unique! Adjust the spice by adding cayenne to taste (it's really spicy, so add with care). If you're sensitive to salt, use a low sodium chicken broth. Add soy sauce to taste for more saltiness. I like using light coconut milk in the broth to cut down on fat and calories; use regular, if you prefer. They both taste great.
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Thai-Style Coconut Chicken Soup
- 1 quart chicken stock
- 1 pound chicken breasts, sliced into thin 2-inch strips
- 3 whole scallions, sliced into rings
- 2 stalks lemongrass, sliced into quarters (or 2 tbsp lemongrass paste)
- 2 tablespoons fresh grated ginger
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce (or more to taste) (for gluten free use a certified GF tamari sauce)
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper (or more to taste)
- 6 ounces fresh oyster and/or shitake mushrooms, sliced
- 28 ounces light coconut milk (2 cans)
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon fresh grated lime zest
- 1/2 cup fresh lime juice
- 2 tablespoons fresh chopped cilantro
- Pour chicken stock in a large soup pot. Add the sliced chicken breast meat, sliced scallions, quartered lemon grass stalks (or paste), grated ginger, soy sauce, and cayenne pepper.
- Bring to a boil, then lower the heat to a simmer. Let the mixture simmer for 30 minutes.
- Add the sliced mushrooms to the pot and stir.
- Turn the heat to low. Shake the cans of coconut milk briskly before opening. Pour them into the soup and stir to blend. Stir in the sugar and lime zest.Slowly increase the heat, stirring constantly, till the soup reaches a slow simmer. Keep the soup at a slow simmer for 15 minutes, stirring often; do not let it boil too briskly.
- After 15 minutes, turn off the heat. Stir in the fresh lime juice and chopped cilantro. Remove the lemon grass stalks with a slotted spoon. Taste the soup; add more cayenne pepper and/or soy sauce to taste.
- Serve hot. Can be poured over steamed white or brown basmati rice for a more filling meal-- doing this stretches the recipe to 8 servings or more.


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The Nimbus is a little Internet-connected device put out by a company called Quirky. It features four analog dials, each with graphic LCDs, with WiFi connectivity to show you how many tweets you've made in the past day. You know, in case you forgot, or something.
[Edu] didn't find the social media-oriented Nimbus very useful, but Internet connected analog gauges are just so cool, so out came the screwdriver and the writing of new firmware commenced.
Inside the Nimbus there's an SPI Flash, PIC micro, and an Electric Imp, a tiny ARM microcontroller and WiFi adapter stuffed inside an SD card. The Imp is always tied to a cloud service, in this case, a Quirky-lined cloud, but the folks at Quirky were keen to help [Edu] in his quest for better firmware.
After figuring out all the traces, [Edu] wrote a simple firmware that can control everything there is to control – the dials, displays, two buttons, and a speaker. So far he's put some graphics on the display and PWM'd the theme from Monkey Island. This is just scratching the surface of what the device can do – [Edu] can still make use of the WiFi connectivity, and those dials can do much more than spin around in circles.
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Company Rule, 1757-1857A multiplicity of motives underlay the British penetration into India: commerce, security, and a purported moral uplift of the people. The "expansive force" of private and company trade eventually led to the conquest or annexation of territories in which spices, cotton, and opium were produced. British investors ventured into the unfamiliar interior landscape in search of opportunities that promised substantial profits. British economic penetration was aided by Indian collaborators, such as the bankers and merchants who controlled intricate credit networks. British rule in India would have been a frustrated or half-realized dream had not Indian counterparts provided connections between rural and urban centers. External threats, both real and imagined, such as the Napoleonic Wars (1796-1815) and Russian expansion toward Afghanistan (in the 1830s), as well as the desire for internal stability, led to the annexation of more territory in India. Political analysts in Britain wavered initially as they were uncertain of the costs or the advantages in undertaking wars in India, but by the 1810s, as the territorial aggrandizement eventually paid off, opinion in London welcomed the absorption of new areas. Occasionally the British Parliament witnessed heated debates against expansion, but arguments justifying military operations for security reasons always won over even the most vehement critics. The British soon forgot their own rivalry with the Portuguese and the French and permitted them to stay in their coastal enclaves, which they kept even after independence in 1947 (see National Integration, this ch.). The British, however, continued to expand vigorously well into the 1850s. A number of aggressive governors-general undertook relentless campaigns against several Hindu and Muslim rulers. Among them were Richard Colley Wellesley (1798-1805), William Pitt Amherst (1823-28), George Eden (1836-42), Edward Law (1842-44), and James Andrew Brown Ramsay (1848-56; also known as the Marquess of Dalhousie). Despite desperate efforts at salvaging their tottering power and keeping the British at bay, many Hindu and Muslim rulers lost their territories: Mysore (1799, but later restored), the Maratha Confederacy (1818), and Punjab (1849). The British success in large measure was the result not only of their superiority in tactics and weapons but also of their ingenious relations with Indian rulers through the "subsidiary alliance" system, introduced in the early nineteenth century. Many rulers bartered away their real responsibilities by agreeing to uphold British paramountcy in India, while they retained a fictional sovereignty under the rubric of Pax Britannica. Later, Dalhousie espoused the "doctrine of lapse" and annexed outright the estates of deceased princes of Satara (1848), Udaipur (1852), Jhansi (1853), Tanjore (1853), Nagpur (1854), and Oudh (1856). European perceptions of India, and those of the British especially, shifted from unequivocal appreciation to sweeping condemnation of India's past achievements and customs. Imbued with an ethnocentric sense of superiority, British intellectuals, including Christian missionaries, spearheaded a movement that sought to bring Western intellectual and technological innovations to Indians. Interpretations of the causes of India's cultural and spiritual "backwardness" varied, as did the solutions. Many argued that it was Europe's mission to civilize India and hold it as a trust until Indians proved themselves competent for self-rule. The immediate consequence of this sense of superiority was to open India to more aggressive missionary activity. The contributions of three missionaries based in Serampore (a Danish enclave in Bengal)--William Carey, Joshua Marshman, and William Ward--remained unequaled and have provided inspiration for future generations of their successors. The missionaries translated the Bible into the vernaculars, taught company officials local languages, and, after 1813, gained permission to proselytize in the company's territories. Although the actual number of converts remained negligible, except in rare instances when entire groups embraced Christianity, such as the Nayars in the south or the Nagas in the northeast, the missionary impact on India through publishing, schools, orphanages, vocational institutions, dispensaries, and hospitals was unmistakable. The British Parliament enacted a series of laws, among which the Regulating Act of 1773 stood first, to curb the company traders' unrestrained commercial activities and to bring about some order in territories under company control. Limiting the company charter to periods of twenty years, subject to review upon renewal, the 1773 act gave the British government supervisory rights over the Bengal, Bombay, and Madras presidencies. Bengal was given preeminence over the rest because of its enormous commercial vitality and because it was the seat of British power in India (at Calcutta), whose governor was elevated to the new position of governor-general. Warren Hastings was the first incumbent (1773-85). The India Act of 1784, sometimes described as the "half-loaf system," as it sought to mediate between Parliament and the company directors, enhanced Parliament's control by establishing the Board of Control, whose members were selected from the cabinet. The Charter Act of 1813 recognized British moral responsibility by introducing just and humane laws in India, foreshadowing future social legislation, and outlawing a number of traditional practices such as sati and thagi (or thugee, robbery coupled with ritual murder). As governor-general from 1786 to 1793, Charles Cornwallis (the Marquis of Cornwallis), professionalized, bureaucratized, and Europeanized the company's administration. He also outlawed private trade by company employees, separated the commercial and administrative functions, and remunerated company servants with generous graduated salaries. Because revenue collection became the company's most essential administrative function, Cornwallis made a compact with Bengali zamindars, who were perceived as the Indian counterparts to the British landed gentry. The Permanent Settlement system, also known as the zamindari system, fixed taxes in perpetuity in return for ownership of large estates; but the state was excluded from agricultural expansion, which came under the purview of the zamindars. In Madras and Bombay, however, the ryotwari (peasant) settlement system was set in motion, in which peasant cultivators had to pay annual taxes directly to the government. Neither the zamindari nor the ryotwari systems proved effective in the long run because India was integrated into an international economic and pricing system over which it had no control, while increasing numbers of people subsisted on agriculture for lack of other employment. Millions of people involved in the heavily taxed Indian textile industry also lost their markets, as they were unable to compete successfully with cheaper textiles produced in Lancashire's mills from Indian raw materials. Beginning with the Mayor's Court, established in 1727 for civil litigation in Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras, justice in the interior came under the company's jurisdiction. In 1772 an elaborate judicial system, known as adalat , established civil and criminal jurisdictions along with a complex set of codes or rules of procedure and evidence. Both Hindu pandits (see Glossary) and Muslim qazis (sharia court judges) were recruited to aid the presiding judges in interpreting their customary laws, but in other instances, British common and statutory laws became applicable. In extraordinary situations where none of these systems was applicable, the judges were enjoined to adjudicate on the basis of "justice, equity, and good conscience." The legal profession provided numerous opportunities for educated and talented Indians who were unable to secure positions in the company, and, as a result, Indian lawyers later dominated nationalist politics and reform movements. Education for the most part was left to the charge of Indians or to private agents who imparted instruction in the vernaculars. But in 1813, the British became convinced of their "duty" to awaken the Indians from intellectual slumber by exposing them to British literary traditions, earmarking a paltry sum for the cause. Controversy between two groups of Europeans--the "Orientalists" and "Anglicists"--over how the money was to be spent prevented them from formulating any consistent policy until 1835 when William Cavendish Bentinck, the governor-general from 1828 to 1835, finally broke the impasse by resolving to introduce the English language as the medium of instruction. English replaced Persian in public administration and education. The company's education policies in the 1830s tended to reinforce existing lines of socioeconomic division in society rather than bringing general liberation from ignorance and superstition. Whereas the Hindu English-educated minority spearheaded many social and religious reforms either in direct response to government policies or in reaction to them, Muslims as a group initially failed to do so, a position they endeavored to reverse. Western-educated Hindu elites sought to rid Hinduism of its much criticized social evils: idolatry, the caste system, child marriage, and sati. Religious and social activist Ram Mohan Roy (1772-1833), who founded the Brahmo Samaj (Society of Brahma) in 1828, displayed a readiness to synthesize themes taken from Christianity, Deism, and Indian monism, while other individuals in Bombay and Madras initiated literary and debating societies that gave them a forum for open discourse. The exemplary educational attainments and skillful use of the press by these early reformers enhanced the possibility of effecting broad reforms without compromising societal values or religious practices. The 1850s witnessed the introduction of the three "engines of social improvement" that heightened the British illusion of permanence in India. They were the railroads, the telegraph, and the uniform postal service, inaugurated during the tenure of Dalhousie as governor-general. The first railroad lines were built in 1850 from Howrah (Haora, across the Hughli River from Calcutta) inland to the coalfields at Raniganj, Bihar, a distance of 240 kilometers. In 1851 the first electric telegraph line was laid in Bengal and soon linked Agra, Bombay, Calcutta, Lahore, Varanasi, and other cities. The three different presidency or regional postal systems merged in 1854 to facilitate uniform methods of communication at an all-India level. With uniform postal rates for letters and newspapers--one-half anna and one anna, respectively (sixteen annas equalled one rupee)--communication between the rural and the metropolitan areas became easier and faster. The increased ease of communication and the opening of highways and waterways accelerated the movement of troops, the transportation of raw materials and goods to and from the interior, and the exchange of commercial information. The railroads did not break down the social or cultural distances between various groups but tended to create new categories in travel. Separate compartments in the trains were reserved exclusively for the ruling class, separating the educated and wealthy from ordinary people. Similarly, when the Sepoy Rebellion was quelled in 1858, a British official exclaimed that "the telegraph saved India." He envisaged, of course, that British interests in India would continue indefinitely.
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If you're ever in need of a media outlet to relentlessly spin a story to heap blame on the symptoms of a government-created problem instead of the actual disease, you know where to look.
Jazz and I have been covering the saga of stupid that is the Renewable Fuel Standard, the regulation that requires U.S. refiners to increase an ever-increasing volume of certain biofuels into the nation's gasoline supply. The original rule was passed during the Bush administration, but the Obama administration has done everything they can to bolster and expand the RFS, and refiners must either comply with the RFS or else purchase credits known as renewable identification numbers (RINs) to effectively purchase an exemption.
The ongoing political biofuels-battle was ramped up a notch this summer as energy companies have been cautioning that we're running up against the "blend wall," the 10 percent threshold beyond which they warn the blended fuels will no longer be acceptable for most cars and trucks, which means demand for the credits have been spiking and prices have been rising (also perhaps exacerbated by the fact the the EPA has been trying to force companies to include a certain type of cellulosic ethanol that isn't actually commercially available in the necessary quantities — I am never going to let that one slide, ever).
You might be thinking that the solution for this absolutely not-clean, not-green, corporate-pork-tossing government program, complete with plenty of unintended consequences (like, say, rising food prices, no big deal), would be to repeal the mandate and hence stop creating an artificial market that forces U.S. consumers to purchase something they obviously don't want to buy. You would be wrong, however — and the NYT is here to let you know that, even though everything they're doing is perfectly legal and the EPA isn't even trying to point to excessive trading as a problem, those dastardly and "exploitative" Wall Street fat cats up to their old tricks must be at least partially responsible. Obviously.
A few worried that Wall Street would set out to exploit this young market, fears the government dismissed. But many people believe that is what happened this year when the price of the ethanol credits skyrocketed 20-fold in just six months, according to an analysis of regulatory documents and interviews with more than 40 people involved in the market, including industry executives, brokers, traders and analysts.
Traders for big banks and other financial institutions, these people say, amassed millions of the credits just as refiners were looking to buy more of them to meet an expanding federal requirement. Industry executives familiar with JPMorgan Chase's activities, for example, told The Times that the bank offered to sell them hundreds of millions of the credits earlier this summer. When asked how the bank had amassed such a stake, the executives said they were told by the bank that it had stockpiled the credits. …
While banks are by no means the largest player in ethanol credits, Wall Street's activity in this market reflects a larger effort by financial institutions to exert their influence over loosely regulated markets for basic commodities, from aluminum to oil. The opacity of the ethanol credit market makes it difficult to determine the extent to which large financial actors have profited.
The banks say they have far less influence in the market than others are suggesting, and are doing nothing wrong. But the activities, while legal, could have consequences for consumers. In the end, energy analysts say, the outcome will be felt at the gas pump — as the higher cost of the ethanol credits gets tacked onto the price of a gallon of gasoline. (The credits, which cost 7 cents each in January, peaked at $1.43 in July, and now are trading for 60 cents.)
ZOMG, Wall Street actively engages in — gasp — speculation?! Mind = blown.
Wall Street's interest in renewable fuel credits are not the problem behind rising gasoline prices — the renewable fuel credits themselves are the problem. The RFS is not, as the NYT refers to it, an "environmental program," and everybody knows it, but they seem to be oh-so-gently suggesting that the answer here is still further financial regulation, instead of just flat-out repeal. Unbelievable.


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Verizon Communications Inc <VZ.N> has hired advisers to prepare a possible $100 billion bid to take full control of Verizon Wireless from its partner Vodafone Group Plc <VOD.L>, two people familiar with the matter said.
Verizon is contemplating a roughly 50:50 cash and stock bid for the 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless it does not already own, an asset it has long coveted, the sources said. It has not put a proposal to Vodafone yet but has hired banking and legal advisers for a possible offer, the sources said late Wednesday.
There are no guarantees that Vodafone will be interested in a deal or that any bid will materialize, the sources said. But they said Verizon was ready to push aggressively and hoped to start discussions with Vodafone soon for a friendly agreement. Verizon is also prepared to take a bid public if the British company does not engage in talks, one of the sources said.
A Verizon spokesman declined to comment. Vodafone declined to comment. Verizon Wireless was not available for comment.
Shares in Vodafone, the world's second-largest mobile operator, rose 1.6 percent in London, while Verizon shares were up 2.5 percent in New York.
Verizon, which has made little secret of its wish to buy out its British partner in the biggest U.S. mobile operator, has ramped up the pressure in recent months, saying that it believed it could buy the asset in a tax-efficient way. The company's move to hire advisers and the sources' revelation of a price range highlight the company's seriousness about doing a deal.
At $100 billion, a deal would be the third-largest acquisition ever, according to Thomson Reuters data, and would come amid a new round of industry consolidation.
Investors say the conditions for a deal have improved as a result of Verizon's strong results, its share price gains, and low interest rates. Verizon shares are valued at 17.9 times forward earnings, compared with a multiple of m11.8 for Vodafone.
"It would depend on how the deal is structured and what the cost of financing is. But we think the deal at $100 billion would be viable for Verizon to do," said Louis Cimino, portfolio manager at Reaves Asset Management in New Jersey, which owns about 1.8 million Verizon shares. He said he would support a deal even if the price rose to $120 billion.
The sources said Verizon is confident it can raise about $50 billion of bank financing to fund a deal. Market demand for investment-grade debt is proving almost limitless in the current environment, and Verizon could expect a warm welcome from investors, even with a fund-raising as big as $50 billion, bankers told Reuters.
"This is a good time for both sides to think seriously about a transaction. Vodafone's probably never going to get a better multiple than now," New Street analyst Jonathan Chaplin said. "The growth rate (for Verizon Wireless) probably has to slow over time, particularly as Sprint and T-Mobile USA and AT&T improve."
Several challenges remain, however.
Analysts and Vodafone investors said the roughly $100 billion figure contemplated by Verizon was too low and likely more of an opening gambit to bring the British firm to the table. Most analysts had put the value of the Vodafone holding at nearer $120 billion.
One top-40 Vodafone investor, speaking on condition of anonymity, said there was "absolutely no way" it will be $100 billion, but that $135 billion would suffice.
A key obstacle to a deal so far has been the expectation that Vodafone could incur a hefty tax bill of around $20 billion if it sells its holding, meaning Verizon would have to pay up to make it worthwhile for the British company.
But the sources who spoke to Reuters late on Wednesday said any deal would be structured such that the eventual tax bill would likely be $5 billion or less.
Under the deal structure, Verizon would buy Vodafone's U.S. holding company, which owns the British group's Verizon Wireless interest as well as some other assets in countries such as Germany and Spain, the sources said. This structure would allow Verizon to take advantage of a provision in British tax law called substantial shareholder exemption, they said.
Chaplin said the tax bill estimate of $5 billion was consistent with his calculations.
Vodafone Chief Executive Vittorio Colao has said he has an open mind on whether to sell the group's 45 percent stake, which has come to make up around 75 percent of the firm's value in recent years as its core European business suffered.
Analysts have said a sale of Verizon Wireless would enable Vodafone to return cash to shareholders, purchase fixed-line assets in Europe, or potentially make the company an attractive takeover target for other telecom giants such as AT&T Inc <T.N>.
One of Vodafone's 15 largest investors said the company should look to return to shareholders a large portion of the proceeds from a sale, while retaining a small amount to reduce debt and fund bolt-on deals.
Shares in Vodafone have risen 26 percent this year on speculation that it could finally be ready to sell its stake.
Verizon's board is expected to discuss details of a potential Verizon Wireless buyout next week at a regularly scheduled meeting being held ahead of the company's annual shareholder meeting, one of the sources said.
Taking full ownership of Verizon Wireless would give Verizon, which is reliant on the unit for growth, a lot more flexibility with the cash generated from the wireless business.
In a research note, Chaplin said a deal at $100 billion would boost Verizon's earnings per share in 2014 by 33 percent.
Verizon's shares have risen about 20 percent this year as Verizon Wireless has been easily outperforming its smaller rivals in terms of profitability and customer growth, and on rising hopes of a buyout.
Any deal now, if it were to happen, would come at a time when the telecommunications industry is undergoing a fresh round of consolidation. MetroPCS Communications Inc <PCS.N> shareholders voted Wednesday to approve a merger with T-Mobile USA, a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG <DTEGn.DE>.
An attempt by Deutsche Telekom to sell T-Mobile to AT&T for $39 billion in 2011 was blocked by U.S. antitrust regulators. Verizon would be unlikely to face any such obstacles in a Verizon Wireless buyout.
Meanwhile, Dish Network Corp <DISH.O>, the No. 2 U.S. satellite TV provider, last week offered to buy wireless service provider Sprint Nextel Corp <S.N> for $25.5 billion in cash and stock, challenging a proposed deal between Sprint and Japan's SoftBank Corp <9984.T>.
(Reporting By Soyoung Kim and Sinead Carew in New York, Kate Holton, Sinead Cruise and Chris Vellacott in London and Ross Kerber in Boston; Editing by Paritosh Bansal, Martin Howell, Will Waterman and John Wallace)


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Dr. Leo Goodman Malamuth II, President of Governors State University, interviews Dr. Robert Hess, University Professor of Education.
"GSU Views" was a talk show hosted by Dr. Leo Goodman-Malamuth II, during his years as University President. During the half-hour interviews, the president and his guests discuss a wide variety of topics "which we believe will be of considerable interest to a non-academic audience," according to Dr. Goodman-Malamuth II. The 30-minute program was carried on Cable-TV in the southern suburbs by Cox Cable Park Forest, Joyce Cable-Joliet, Metrovision in the Palos Hills area and by Cablenet, Channel 21, serving several northwest suburbs. This show reached approximately 75,000 homes in metropolitan Chicago.
GSU Views was produced to professional standards in the TV studios of the ICC (Instructional Communications Center) department of the university. Professor Tony Labriola was the director. The technical crews consisted of both faculty with professional experience and students in media communications. The show made its debut in October 1982 and ran until 1989. According to an August 20, 1992 Innovator (student newspaper) article, Dr. Goodman-Malamuth hosted over 125 shows. The programs were offered without charge to local cable companies as a public service of the university.
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The collection consists of records transferred from the Greater Vernon Museum and Archives, as better fitting the mandate of the City of Edmonton Archives.
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Sheet music - The Boys of the Great Western Plains, words and music by Pte. W. Watson, 138th Batt., CEF, Edmonton; dedicated to the 49th Canadian CEF Edmonton Alberta Batt'n (Loyal Edmonton Regiment), [ca. 1918].
Postcard - (of Field, BC and Mt. Stephen), addressed to Mrs. Mohr;
Souvenir Programme - Souvenir to Commemorate the Fortieth Year of the Ministry of Rev. D.G. McQueen, 1927 - annotated with Mrs. Mohr, Vernon. -
Souvenir Programme - The Visit of Their Most Gracious Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to the Province of Alberta, Edmonton, 1939.


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Hi all, I am so impressed with you, you do great with this stuff. I am at the end of my class, thank goodness. I will always have total respect for you!
I am completely lost. I think I have messed up and can't even figure out what I am doing wrong and what I need to do to make this compile. Please Please help me!!!!
//This is a personal address book that contains many enteries.
#include <iostream.h>
struct AddressBook //header for structure and able to enter 10 people
char Name[15]; //declaring the name and size of 15 characters
char Address[15];
char City[25];
int age[3]; //declaring the age and 3 intergers
char zip[5];
char phonenumber[10];
input (void)
cout<<"Welcome to my address book!\n"
cout<<"Enter the information into the address book!\n";
cout<< Enter the Name: ";
cin.getline (Name, 20);
cout<<"Enter the address: ";
cin.getline (Address, 20);
cout<<"Enter the City and abbreviated state: ";
cin.getline (City,30);
cout<<"Enter the Zip code: ";
cin.getline (Zip, 6);
cout<<"Enter the phone number including area code (please do not add a hypen or space): ";
cin.getline (Phonenumber, 10);
cout<<"Enter the age of this person: ";
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Organized by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (FEP) in collaboration with the Harry Ransom Center, the exhibition Arnold Newman: Masterclass explores the career of Arnold Newman, one of the finest portrait photographers of the twentieth century.
The exhibition opens March 3 in Germany at C|O Berlin, and the Ransom Center will host the exhibition's first U.S. showing in February 2013.
This exhibition tour was created under the auspices of the American nonprofit organization FEP. The show highlights 200 framed vintage prints, covering Newman's career, from the Arnold Newman Foundation archive and the collections of major American museums and private collectors. Twenty-eight photographs from the Ransom Center's Newman collection are featured in the exhibition.
A bold modernist with a superb sense of compositional geometry, Newman is known for a crisp, spare style that cleverly situates his subjects in context. Artists delighted in sitting for Newman, knowing that he would find a way to convey their sensibility in dramatic, but always appropriate, fashion. Though Newman is celebrated today for his great portraiture, his still lifes, architectural studies, and earliest portraits, often of anonymous people in the street, are far less known, though they can well compare with the best in these genres.
The exhibition takes stock of the entire range of Newman's photographic art, showing many fine prints for the first time.


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'Basketball Wives' Star Tami Roman -- My (Not) Fat Ass Got Me a Fat Bank Account
'Basketball Wives' Star My (Not) Fat Ass Got Me a Fat Bank Account
"Basketball Wives" star Tami Roman traded in her large behind for some large bills -- because a diet company offered her a SIX FIGURE endorsement deal after she shed 25 pounds using their product!!!
Sources close to Tami tell TMZ she got all the way up to 185 lbs recently and was determined to lose the weight. She started exercising her booty off, ate healthy food ... and began using a product called NV Sprinkles -- where you sprinkle powder on your food to make you eat less.
We're told Tami dropped the weight in about two months and was so vocal in the press about the NV's help in her speedy weight loss, the company actually approached her to be the face of the product.
Our sources say Tami signed on for a mid-six-figure endorsement deal and all she has to do is keep the weight off.
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NEW YORK (AP) - The 89-year-old son convicted of stealing millions of dollars from philanthropist Brooke Astor recently said he has regrets about what happened, a parole hearing document released Thursday shows.
And when Anthony Marshall was asked whether he'd do the things at issue differently if he could, Marshall said, simply, "Quite."
Marshall's brief answers in the Aug. 21 interview, which led to his release last week on medical parole, offer a glimpse into thoughts he didn't express at his 2009 trial or sentencing in a case that opened a well-placed window on New York society.
Interviewed in a hospital bed two months into his one-to-three-year sentence, Marshall was asked whether he had regrets about the events leading to his imprisonment.
"Well, regrets, yeah," he said, "naturally."
Astor married a descendant of one of America's first multimillionaires, and she gave away millions to both big cultural institutions and neighborhood charities. She received the nation's top civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and was a fondly regarded fixture in the city's society set. She was 105 when she died in 2007.
Marshall, a former ambassador and Broadway producer, was convicted in 2009 of exploiting his mother's dementia to loot her $200 million fortune. His trial plunged jurors into a world of Park Avenue apartments and sprawling estates; witnesses included Astor friends Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters.
Marshall, who didn't testify at his trial or speak at his sentencing, denies the allegations and has fought his conviction. He remained free on bail until June.
State law allows medical parole for inmates with serious and permanent illnesses.
Marshall suffers from Parkinson's disease, his doctors have said. He'd been taken to a hospital after falling down in prison and was interviewed with an oxygen tube to help his breathing, according to the redacted transcript released by the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. The agency generally redacts details that pertain to medical conditions, victims of crime and safety issues.
His lawyers had no immediate comment Thursday on Marshall's current condition.
Marshall told parole commissioners he can't stand up or walk for long, gets dizzy and needs help to fasten a button. While he said he was fuzzy about the date and how long he'd been in prison, he said his memory overall was "fair."
And when asked whether he recalled the allegations that led to his conviction, Marshall didn't hesitate.
"I remember it," he said, "all too well."
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You already know it's hard to balance your checkbook while simultaneously reflecting on your past. Now, investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine — having done the equivalent of wire-tapping a hard-to-reach region of the brain — can tell us how this impasse arises. The researchers showed that groups of nerve cells in a structure called the posterior medial cortex, or PMC, are strongly activated during a recall task such as trying to remember whether you had coffee yesterday, but just as strongly suppressed when you're engaged in solving a math problem.
The PMC, situated roughly where the brain's two hemispheres meet, is of great interest to neuroscientists because of its central role in introspective activities.
"This brain region is famously well-connected with many other regions that are important for higher cognitive functions," said Josef Parvizi, MD, PhD, associate professor of neurology and neurological sciences and director of Stanford's Human Intracranial Cognitive Electrophysiology Program. "But it's very hard to reach. It's so deep in the brain that the most commonly used electrophysiological methods can't access it."
In a study to be published online Sept. 3 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Parvizi and his Stanford colleagues found a way to directly and sensitively record the output from this ordinarily anatomically inaccessible site in human subjects. By doing so, the researchers learned that particular clusters of nerve cells in the PMC that are most active when you are recalling details of your own past are strongly suppressed when you are performing mathematical calculations. Parvizi is the study's senior author. The first and second authors, respectively, are postdoctoral scholars Brett Foster, PhD, and Mohammed Dastjerdi, PhD.
Much of our understanding of what roles different parts of the brain play has been obtained by techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, which measures the amount of blood flowing through various brain regions as a proxy for activity in those regions. But changes in blood flow are relatively slow, making fMRI a poor medium for listening in on the high-frequency electrical bursts (approximately 200 times per second) that best reflect nerve-cell firing. Moreover, fMRI typically requires pooling images from several subjects into one composite image. Each person's brain physiognomy is somewhat different, so the blending blurs the observable anatomical coordinates of a region of interest.
Nonetheless, fMRI imaging has shown that the PMC is quite active in introspective processes such as autobiographical memory processing ("I ate breakfast this morning") or daydreaming, and less so in external sensory processing ("How far away is that pedestrian?"). "Whenever you pay attention to the outside world, its activity decreases," said Parvizi.
For this study, the Stanford scientists employed a highly sensitive technique to demonstrate that introspective and externally focused cognitive tasks directly interfere with one another, because they impose opposite requirements on the same brain circuitry.
Implanting these electrode packets doesn't mean piercing the brain or individual cells within it. "Each electrode picks up activity from about a half-million nerve cells," Parvizi said. "It's more like dotting the ceiling of a big room, filled with a lot of people talking, with multiple microphones. We're listening to the buzz in the room, not individual conversations. Each microphone picks up the buzz from a different bunch of partiers. Some groups are more excited and talking more loudly than others."
The experimenters found eight patients whose seizures were believed to be originating somewhere near the brain's midline and who, therefore, had had electrode packets placed in the crevasse dividing the hemispheres. (The brain's two hemispheres are spaced far enough apart to slip an electrode packet between them without incurring damage.)
The researchers got permission from these eight patients to bring in laptop computers and put the volunteers through a battery of simple tasks requiring modest intellectual effort. "It can be boring to lie in bed waiting seven days for a seizure to come," said Foster. "Our studies helped them pass the time." The sessions lasted about an hour.
On the laptop would appear a series of true/false statements falling into one of four categories. Three categories were self-referential, albeit with varying degrees of specificity. Most specific was so-called "autobiographical episodic memory," an example of which might be: "I drank coffee yesterday." The next category of statements was more generic: "I eat a lot of fruit." The most abstract category, "self-judgment," comprised sentences along the lines of: "I am honest."
A fourth category differed from the first three in that it consisted of arithmetical equations such as: 67 + 6 = 75. Evaluating such a statement's truth required no introspection but, instead, an outward, more sensory orientation.
For each item, patients were instructed to press "1" if a statement was true, "2" if it was false.
Significant portions of the PMC that were "tapped" by electrodes became activated during self-episodic memory processing, confirming the PMC's strong role in recall of one's past experiences. Interestingly, true/false statements involving less specifically narrative recall — such as, "I eat a lot of fruit" — induced relatively little activity. "Self-judgment" statements — such as, "I am attractive" — elicited none at all. Moreover, whether a volunteer judged a statement to be true or false made no difference with respect to the intensity, location or duration of electrical activity in activated PMC circuits.
This suggests, both Parvizi and Foster said, that the PMC is not the brain's "center of self-consciousness" as some have proposed, but is more specifically engaged in constructing autobiographical narrative scenes, as occurs in recall or imagination.
Foster, Dastjerdi and Parvizi also found that the PMC circuitry activated by a recall task took close to a half-second to fire up, ruling out the possibility that this circuitry's true role was in reading or making sense of the sentence on the screen. (These two activities are typically completed within the first one-fifth of a second or so.) Once activated, these circuits remained active for a full second.
Yet all the electrodes that lit up during the self-episodic condition were conspicuously deactivated during arithmetic calculation. In fact, the circuits being monitored by these electrodes were not merely passively silent, but actively suppressed, said Parvizi. "The more a circuit is activated during autobiographical recall, the more it is suppressed during math. It's essentially impossible to do both at once."


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by Peter DeWolf
"Do you ever read writing
and wish that it was about you?
That you caused the epic fucking swell of emotions?
That you were the only one capable of the rescue?
Do you ever read writing
and feel it so intensely?
Like every word is an angry and desperate misfiring neuron?
Like every line break is a welcomed necessary reprieve?
Do you ever read writing
that you just don't want to end?
With sentences spilling like sand through your fingers?
With images appearing and then dissipating like sea smoke as temperatures inch upwards?
Do you ever read writing
and realize that it is yours?
And wonder if you can ever achieve it again?
And wonder…"
Then she put down her pen, put her journal in her night table and tried, once more, to get some sleep.
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Today NewsGator announced that their consumer synchronization platform will no longer be available as of August 31, 2009. Rather than re-hash the announcement here, I invite you to read it on NewsGator's official company blog. There's also an FAQ which addresses most of the questions about this announcement.
So how will this impact you if you're a FeedDemon customer who relies on NewsGator sync? Honestly, this shouldn't have much impact on you. FeedDemon 3.0 still offers syncrhonization - – but instead of synching with NewsGator, it syncs with Google Reader.
The first time you run FeedDemon 3.0, you'll be asked whether to convert your NewsGator subscriptions to Google Reader subscriptions. Once the conversion completes, FeedDemon will sync with Google Reader instead of NewsGator.
If you're among the few customers who created synched clippings in FeedDemon, your clippings will no longer be synched after the conversion, and the RSS feed for your synched clippings will no longer update. However, prior to the end of NewsGator sync, we'll provide a way to redirect your synched clippings feed so that anyone subscribed to it will be unaffected by the change. Most of you will want to redirect to your Google Reader shared items feed (here's mine) since FeedDemon 3.0 includes the ability to copy articles to your Google Reader shared items.
What does this mean for the future of FeedDemon? For the record I want to make it clear that FeedDemon's lifespan won't be cut short by this change. FeedDemon (and NetNewsWire, for that matter) continues to have a very bright future. I'm excited about being able to take full advantage of the power of Google Reader sync.
The Google Reader team has been making some interesting moves lately which enable me to take FeedDemon where I've long wanted it to go. If you're a FeedDemon customer, I think you're going to love where FeedDemon will take you now that it's tied to Google Reader instead of NewsGator.


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Dateline: Nigeria— A housewife has filed for divorce from her husband because he will not stop defecating in the family's cooking pots. According to the Online Nigeria website, Oluwakemi Ogundele told the Igando Customary Court in Lagos earlier this month that her husband, Oluwafemi, is a violent drunkard. To add insult to injury, Oluwafemi has an unfortunate habit of pooping in cooking pots and on dinner plates when intoxicated. Mrs. Ogundele asked the court to dissolve the marriage because Oluwafemi no longer provides for her or her children and because she does not love him. Oluwafemi denied charges of spousal abuse and crockery defecation, but admitted there is no love left between the couple. The court adjourned the matter until later this month and warned the couple to remain civil with one another in the meantime. Dateline: Austria— A devout Catholic who prayed to be saved while stuck in a malfunctioning elevator rushed to a church to thank God after his rescue—and was promptly crushed to death under a stone altar. According to the U.K.'s Telegraph newspaper, Gunther Link, 45, died instantly as he was crushed under the ancient 860-pound monument in Weinhaus Church in Vienna. Roman Haslinger, a police spokesperson, told the newspaper, "He was a very religious man and had been scared when trapped in the lift and had prayed for release. A short while later, he was pulled out of the elevator, and he went straight to the church to thank God. He seemed to have embraced a stone pillar on which the stone altar was perched and it fell on him, killing him instantly." Link's body was found by parishioners attending Mass the next day after he had been reported missing by his cousin. Dateline: Turkey— Turkish military announced on Sept. 10 that it had stormed a house on the outskirts of Istanbul and freed nine captive women who believed they were competing on a reality show. The women were rescued earlier in the week from a villa in the suburb of Riva. A spokesperson for the military police said the women had been held captive for around two months but refused to provide further details. Several local news agencies said the women were made to believe they were participating in a "Big Brother"-type reality show for television. Instead, it appears, naked pictures of the women were sold on the Internet. The women, who responded to a newspaper ad asking for contestants to appear on a reality show for Turkish television, eventually figured out they were being tricked. Dogan News Agency reported that the women who asked to leave the villa were threatened. The HaberTürk newspaper said one of the women managed to contact a family member and asked for help. HaberTürk identified the girls as models from the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya and the Aegean port city of Izmir. "We were not after the money, but we thought our daughter could have the chance of becoming famous if she took part in the contest," the newspaper quoted one of the women's mothers as saying. "But they have duped us all." Dateline: Florida— On Wednesday, Sept. 9, at 10:20 a.m., police in Bayou George arrested George R. Linthicum II, 47, for shoplifting a 12-ounce beer from a convenience store. Linthicum was waiting quietly outside the M&M Mart on County Road 2301 when a Bay County Sheriff's deputy arrived. Linthicum allegedly admitted to stealing the beer but became combative when the deputy told him he could not finish drinking the stolen beer before going to jail. When the deputy told him to come along, the report said Linthicum raised his voice and "with an aggressive tone stated that he was going to finish the beer." According to the Panama City News Herald, Linthicum told deputies he had recently lost his job of 13 years and just wanted to drink a beer. Linthicum was eventually charged with shoplifting, battery, possession of marijuana and smuggling contraband into a detention facility. Dateline: Alabama— In an obviously failed attempt to avoid trouble, an 11-year-old Huntsville boy faked a kidnapping so he wouldn't have to bring home his bad report card. The unnamed student at Ed White Middle School claimed a man in a red, beat-up car grabbed him after school and forced him into the vehicle. "I'm going to take you somewhere and kill you," the boy claimed the man said. The boy also said the man had a pistol. The 11-year-old said he managed to jump from the moving vehicle but was forced to leave his book bag—which contained his report card—behind. Police became suspicious of the boy's story because he did manage to "escape" his captor with his band instrument intact. The boy soon admitted the ruse and apologized to police. The whereabouts of the book bag and report card are unknown.


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Praise be to Allah.
It is permissible for you to marry the daughter of your maternal aunt in this situation, because breastfeeding (radaa'ah) only makes the woman (and her daughters) the mahrams of the child who nursed if it takes place five times. [A mahram is a relative whom one is forbidden to marry and with whom the rulings of hijab or covering do not apply - Translator]. The evidence for that is the hadeeth narrated by Muslim (1452) from 'Aa'ishah who said: "One of the (rulings) that was revealed in the Quran was that ten known breastfeedings make the child a mahram, then that was abrogated and replaced with five."
Al-Nawawi (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
The scholars differed concerning the number of breastfeedings for which the ruling on breastfeeding (radaa'ah) applies. 'Aa'ishah and al-Shaafa'i and his companions said that there is no proof for any number less than five. The majority of scholars said that the ruling applies if breastfeeding occurs once. This was narrated by Ibn al-Mundhir from 'Ali, Ibn Mas'ood, Ibn 'Umar, Ibn 'Abbaas, 'Ata', Tawoos, Ibn al-Musayyib, al-Hasan, Makhool, al-Zuhri, Qataadah, Hammaad, Maalik, al-Awzaa'i, al-Thawri and Abu Haneefah – may Allah be pleased with them. Abu Thawr, Abu 'Ubayd, Ibn al-Mundhir and Dawood said: The ruling applies in the case of three breastfeedings, not less than that. Al-Shaafa'i and those who agreed with him followed the hadeeth of 'Aa'ishah which mentioned five known breastfeedings.
For the definition of breastfeeding which makes the child a mahram, see question no. 804.
Shaykh Ibn Baaz was asked whether breastfeeding from a woman three times makes her a mahram.
He replied: this breastfeeding three times does not make her a mahram through breastfeeding. The ruling on becoming a mahram through breastfeeding only applies if breastfeeding occurs five times or more. Then he quoted the hadeeth of 'Aa'ishah as evidence.
Fatawa Islamiyyah, 3/326.
Shaykh Ibn 'Uthaymeen said:
One breastfeeding does not have any effect, rather it must be five breastfeedings that occur before the child is weaned and before he reaches the age of two. A person does not become the woman's (foster) child if he breastfeeds once or twice or three or four times. It must also be five known breastfeedings; if there is some uncertainty as to whether he breastfed four or five times, the principle is that it was four, because every time we are uncertain about numbers, we take the lower number. Based on this, if a woman says, I breastfed this child but I do not know if it was once or twice, or three or four or five times, we say that this child is not her (foster) child, because it has to be five known breastfeedings without a doubt.
Al-Fatawa al-Jaami'ah li'l-Mar'ah al-Muslimah, 2/768.


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General Information
The European Union has indicated food safety as a prime priority. Based on Council Directive 93/43/EEC for food hygiene and recently on EC Regulation 178/2000 , where it is specified the foundation of a European Authority for Food Safety, the European Community seeks for a new more valid approach regarding the issue.
Hellenic Legislation, harmonized with reg. 93/43/EC, and Joint Ministerial Decision 487/04-10-2000 , demands for adoption of HACCP's basic procedures by all food sector's companies, in order to monitor the critical control points during foodstuff's production.
The International Standards Organization (ISO) acknowledging the need of a standard which will be held as a basis worldwide, issued on September 2005, the international standard ISO 22000:2005. The new standard includes all HACCP principles, whilst harmonizing with the ISO 9001:2000 standard. This new standard may be implemented by all companies that are involved in the production, packing, processing and marketing of foodstuff, regardless of their size.
Certification according to such a standard (ISO 22000:2005, HACCP) is a powerful competitive advantage for the holders and a new starting point for extending their business activities and aspirations.


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PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- What does it mean when Bashar Assad's regime bombs the Yarmouk -- Syria's largest Palestinian refugee neighborhood? Driving dozens of formerly pro-government Palestinian fighters to defect and join the rebels. All of this begs a closer look at the Palestinians in Syria.
In September, following the death of an staff member of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency in Syria, UNRWA spokesman Christopher Gunness stated: "An UNRWA staff member in Syria, aged 28 years, was killed while on his way to catch a bus to work. The death occurred in the area of Or'uba just outside the southern border of Yarmouk residential area. Yarmouk is home to approximately 1 million Syrians and more than 150,000 Palestine refugees."
The majority of Syria's 500,000 U.N.-registered Palestinian refugees are descendants of the original refugees of 1948. While not citizens, Palestinians in Syria have had more than their brethren in other Arab countries. They have been able to hold government jobs, attend state universities for free and serve in the military. As such, the Assad's regime has long painted itself as champion of the Palestinian cause.
By UNRWA calculations, virtually every Palestinian born since that time is also a refugee. That number now reaches into the millions. This is unprecedented in the history of refugee crises. In no other situation has a group been extended specific status that has been continually expanded to include subsequent generations over a period of decades.
There is no question that this was a tragic incident yet, it raises a fundamental question about the level of attention given to UNRWA's work within the borders of the state of Israel versus other Arab countries specifically, Syria under Assad which has been killing its own citizens for months now.
Case in point, during Israel's Operation Cast Lead in 2008 and now again in Operation Pillar of Defense, Israel was bombarded on a daily basis with accusations that it intentionally targets UNRWA schools with the goal of killing children.
Of course, this was a complete fallacy but UNRWA went out of its way to highlight this in order to depict Israel as coldblooded and inhumane despite the fact that those schools were indeed used as rocket launching pads hoping the Israeli military would retaliate.
The reality was the Israel indeed took hits in order to not put women and children in harm's way as it has always conducted itself.
In contrast, Palestinians have use their youths as human shields.
Enter Syria, where is the outrage? An UNRWA field worker is killed and there is barely a mention in the media whereas in Israel it engenders a slew of U.N. condemnations centered on its "crimes against humanity" and intentionally sabotaging UNRWA's operations and good work.
Moreover, we are now seeing Syrian-Palestinians who fled protesting outside UNRWA's offices in Lebanon asking for help.
The double standard is no accident given that Palestinian identity is linked to the Nakba narrative that mandates the creation of a Palestinian state only within Israel that is to say everything outside those borders where UNRWA operates should be a constant reminder that there is no option for resolution outside of "Palestine."
Syria is unique as it serves as a paragon of Palestinian support. Consequently, Palestinian activists argue that it was their integration into Syrian society facilitated by Assad's regime that made them join the uprisings.
As Yarmouk-Palestinian activist Abu Omar states, "We have never felt that there was a big difference between the Palestinians and the Syrians ['but we want our home in Palestine']."
UNRWA is an open-ended, educational, social welfare system for millions of Palestinians, primarily in the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. But given what we see in Syria in what sense are any of these individual refugees?
UNRWA's success has been in transforming itself into the guardian of the refugees' isolation, preserving the uniqueness of the Palestinian refugees' identity as an entity that cannot be assimilated into any Arab country but ONLY into what is perceived as Palestine instead of the Jewish state. This dependency prevented the refugees from directly getting involved in politics, leaving UNRWA as their only voice in the "Arab Wilderness."
The idea that on the one hand Palestinians are part of the Arab world but on the other different and isolated from it enabled UNRWA to become the vehicle that represents their "otherness" and eventually led to the agency's politicization.
The tragic scale of the human-rights crisis in Syria -- more than 60,000 dead, hundreds of thousands displaced and murderous abuses on all sides -- has put the Palestinian situation in proper perspective especially when it comes to UNRWA. Had UNRWA truly been concerned about the welfare of refugees in the region it would look to Syria where there are real refugees who could benefit from their support.
UNRWA was founded for Palestinians and is run by Palestinians who monopolize and exploit a factious reality to a problem that could have been solved decades ago, as such it is time to reassess what UNRWA actually does and what it was intended to do.
(Asaf Romirowsky is a Middle East analyst, an adjunct scholar at the Middle East Forum and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Anat Berko is a Jewish refugee from Iraq, a visiting professor at George Washington University, a research fellow at the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Israel and the author of "The Smarter Bomb: Women and Children as Suicide Bombers.")
(United Press International's "Outside View" commentaries are written by outside contributors who specialize in a variety of important issues. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of United Press International. In the interests of creating an open forum, original submissions are invited.)


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Manna Dey's songs played at the city's traffic signals, while a large number of his fans paid floral tributes to the legendary singer before his photographs at the Rabindra Sadan here Friday.
Dey's nephew Sudeb Dey, some Manipuri students and several renowned singers were among those who paid homage to the maestro at the Rabindra Sadan.
There was a trickle of people through the day to pay respect to the great music personality who died in Bangalore early Thursday following a prolonged illness. He was 94.
After Dey's daughter turned down her request to bring the body to Kolkata for a state funeral, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had ordered that arrangements be made at Rabindra Sadan for the people to pay their last respects to him.
Atop one of the pictures is written "Tar gaan theme geche" (His songs have fallen silent).
Banerjee also instructed Kolkata Mayor Sovan Chetterjee to ask the police to play Dey's ever popular Bengali numbers from traffic signals, replacing the usual fare of Rabindra Sangeet, for the next seven days.
Soon after coming to power in 2011, the Banerjee government had started playing soulful Rabindra Sangeet at trafficsignals, in a novel venture to ease the rough ride on the city's roads.
On Friday, Dey's songs were played at most of the traffic junctions in the metropolis.
Meanwhile, soccer giants Mohun Bagan has decided to hold a minute's silence in Dey's memory Saturday before the kick off of its I-League away match against Mumbai FC, at Balewadi Stadium, Pune. Dey, an avid football buff, was a Mohun Bagan member.


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Check out all the stuff crammed into a small swath of strip board. It's got that characteristic look of a roll-your-own Arduino board, which is exactly what it is. [S. Erisman] shows you how to build your own copy of his YABBS; Yet Another Bare Bones Arduino (on Stripboard).
The strips of copper on the bottom of the substrate run perpendicular to the DIP chip and have been sliced in the middle. This greatly reduces the amount of jumpering that would have been necessary if using protoboard. A few wires make the necessary connections between the two tooled SIL headers that make up the chip socket. On the right hand side there a voltage regulator with smoothing caps. The left side hosts the obligatory pin 13 LED, and the crystal oscillator can be glimpsed on the far side of the ATmega328.
Pin headers along either side of the board have been altered to allow for soldering from the wrong side of the plastic frames. Note that there's a three-pin hunk that breaks out the voltage regulator, and an ISP programming header sticking out the top to which those female jumper wires are connected.
Ringing in at as little as $2-$4.75 a piece you'll have no problem leaving this in a project for the long hall. We can't say the same for a $30+ brand name unit.


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Ancient Fire is the name of my brand of homemade wines, meads, ciders & beers. Under that name I also write articles on my projects, wines from around the world, food & pairing, the wine business, wineries, travel and all things I enjoy in this life. -- Jason
Friday, January 14, 2011
Brew Masters – "Off-Centered Ales for Off-Centered People"
The series was initially slated for a six episode run. I have watched the first four so far. The fifth episode aired when I was not at home, the DVR decided not to tape it and it is not yet available on demand. The sixth and final episode has been slow in coming amidst rumors that the show had been cancelled. The rumors are not true, and the word is the final show is in the works. What is still unclear is whether the show has a future and neither The Discovery Channel nor Dogfish Head is saying. After having enjoyed the first four episodes what I can say is that future or not, this show was very educational and entertaining. If you want to get the inside story on a small craft brewery started by a guy with crazy ideas and lots of energy, find Brew Masters.
It would only be fitting that I would be enjoying several styles of Dogfish beer as I recap the first two episodes of the show for you. The selections for this installment are the Raison D'être and Chicory Stout. I'll get started with the first episode and get back to the beer tasting a little farther along.
Starting off the series we are introduced to Sam Calagione, the founder of the Dogfish Head brewery located in Milton, DE. He started home brewing in the 1980's and ended up winning the annual food and beverage competition at Punkin' Chunkin' for his pumpkin beer. This is an event that Sam says got the ball rolling. In 1995 the brewery opened as a brew pub in Rehoboth Beach, DE. The brew pub is still there, very popular and the site of frequent product tasting and unveilings.
Dogfish Head is known for creating "extreme beers", e.g. beers with unusual ingredients and/or unique processes. While some beer drinkers believe this to be a scourge, I appreciate the diversity and the story behind each of their beers.
The first episode is entitled "Bitches Brew", a reference to the classic Mile Davis album from 1970.
Early in the episode Sam takes the camera crew to a wall in the brewery where there is the following quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"Why so would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."
I myself am a Thoreau guy but I can appreciate the sensibility in the Emerson quote, living much this way myself. Clearly the reputation of Dogfish Head, Sam and his crew live up to this lofty idea.
Tasting the Raison D'être
According to the brewery web site and the packaging this beer is made with Belgian beet sugars and green raisins. The beer is a dark reddish-brown (the bottle says mahogany) with an ever so slightly sweet, malty aroma. The off-white head came up nicely and left a light lacing on the glass. The body is full with flavors of generously roasted malts and grains. We easily detected the influence of the raisins, comparing it to our wines made with the influence of black currants. I love a good brown ale and the sweet malt flavors of this one definitely did the trick. At 8% alcohol by volume (ABV) these could be dangerous!
Back to the show. What's with the episode name? The primary story of this episode was that Sony approached Dogfish Head about creating a beer to debut with the re-launch of Bitches Brew. The beer they came up with was a blend of an Imperial Stout and the ingredients typically found in an Ethiopian fermented beverage named Tej. Sam clearly has immense creative vision to be able to consider the elements of his craft and how they can be blended in a tribute to the work of someone like Miles Davis. I haven't had the beer yet so I can't give you a first-hand review.
During the episode you are introduced to a number of interesting people including Floris, the DFH master brewer from Belgium, Sam's wife Mariah who heads of DFH marketing, Katrinka their resident yeast expert and lab goddess, and Brian the right-hand-man brewer Sam relies on to handle R&D for his all crazy ideas.
The ultimate blend they come up with for Bitches Brew is ¾ Imperial Stout and ¼ Tej-based brew. While the genesis of the beer might seem crazy, Sam can really think big. His plan was to brew the beer and debut it a Savor, a high-profile industry event for craft beer and food pairings. We see Sam rolling in the fresh kegs, tapping them and serving them to his self-admitted very discerning audience. The feedback was positive overall and the little research I did suggests the beer was well received but hasn't risen to the status of one of DFH's best.
The hilarity of this episode is the rap Sam and Brian put together and their rap group The Pain Relievahs. They filmed themselves making a version of the song all decked out in 80's era rapper gear and using locations in an around the brewery to provide phat visuals. Did I just write that?
You can check out clips of the show including the rap "Makin' Bitches Brew" as the show's web site at Discovery.com.
Tasting the Chicory Stout
This is a very dark brown, almost black, ale with a strong coffee aroma. The bottle indicates that the beer is smoothed out with a touch of Chicory and Mexican coffee. The tan colored head dissipates quickly leaving minimal lacing on the glass. The classic stout flavors of chocolate and coffee are easily accessible. With a nice kick of acidity on the finish the flavors lingered just long enough to make me smile. I am not familiar with Chicory so I can't say I know what the influence is in the beer. This beer is 5.2% ABV, making it a little easier to line up a couple to drink! Margot liked this one the best, and she doesn't say that about dark beers very often.
The second episode is entitled "Chica" which refers to a Peruvian brew made from corn that has had its starch conversion aided using human saliva. Are you still reading? Beer nerds will know about the process at work here, but the application of saliva is a unique answer to the problem that is done in the modern era by cracking the grains and mashing (not like potatoes) them in hot water.
This episode takes Sam to Peru in search of the process and the local versions of Chicha. Watching a very experienced Peruvian woman working up a batch of Chicha was a lot of fun for a home brewer. I agree with Sam in his pursuit of appreciating the craft in its historical context.
Sam's hope for the trip was to gain insight into the process to build on an earlier experiment in making it at DFH. The humor involved in asking employees to chew corn on the job had me rolling! Interviews with members of the public who we on hand to sample the new brew were interesting. Despite the fact that the saliva is no longer present in the beer and any creepy crawlies had been long since boiled off didn't seem to sway some folks from passing on a taste. Can't please everyone!
You can check out clips of the show including at the show's web site at Discovery.com.
One of the historical tidbits I took away from the episode is where the traditional ingredients for beer derive their esteemed history from. Hops are a relatively new addition to beer brewing. Before the 1300's spices like rosemary and thyme were used to flavor beers. Hops not only add bitterness and flavors, but they also have an antiseptic quality that helps preserve beer. In 1516 a German beer purity law, the Reinheitsgebot, established that that beer would have only four ingredients, malt, hops, water and yeast. That pretty much settled it and beer laws all around the world now levy this requirement on commercial brewers.
In the end Sam confirms that the research done in Peru definitely improved the second batch of Chicha which was only available at the brewpub and for as long as it lasted. The beer isn't commercially viable made the way they made it, something that makes a trip to the brewpub a must do. You never know what you might be able to sample that you can't get anywhere else!
While I was doing my research I came across another blogger's post about Dogfish Head and a New Years Eve dinner they enjoyed in 2009. Clearly DFH knows how to make good beer AND have a good time!
*** After I first published this I realized I forgot to include a link to Renee's post on making Pork & Sauerkraut with DFH Indian Brown Ale. Renee publishes the Eat. Live. Blog. and is one of my Boston foodie friends. The pic with her taking a swig and tending to the pot on the stove pretty much sums it up!
5 comments:
- Renee {Eat.Live.Blog} said...
I think you know how much I love Dogfish Head! The Chickory Stout is unbelievable! And the flavors hold up so well when cooking with it!
- January 14, 2011 at 11:02 AM
- Kate @ Diethood.com said...
Never heard of dogfish head ... thank you for the informative post!
- January 14, 2011 at 8:46 PM
- Meghan@travelwinedine said...
I love Dogfish Head but have never had the Chicory Stout. Sounds like it would be something I would love!
- January 15, 2011 at 9:51 AM
- Lara @ GoodCookDoris said...
I'm always looking for interesting dark beers! Love the sound of the stout - coffee aroma sounds divine.
Thanks for the tip! - January 15, 2011 at 10:01 AM
- Unknown said...
I'm not a dark beer fan but my Hubby is so I'm going to have to look for this one. Thank you for the information. I'll also have to tell him to look for this show. I'll bet he loves it.
- January 22, 2011 at 10:16 AM


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Report: China Hackers Targeted Spy Info in Google Attack
As part of a sophisticated counterintelligence operation, Chinese hackers who infiltrated Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) during a high-profile 2010 breach reportedly gained access to a secret database with information containing data about U.S. surveillance targets.
While the initial breach was revealed by Google, the apparent intent of the hackers to discover the identities of Chinese spies operating in the U.S. who were being watched by American law enforcement agencies was reported by The Washington Post.
The operation underscores the sophisticated nature of cyber espionage operations targeting major U.S. companies from hackers around the world, some of whom may be representing foreign governments.
According to the Post, it's not clear how much information the Chinese hackers were able to glean from the attack, but the breached database contained information about court orders signing off on surveillance.
A successful attack may have given China a heads up about spies in the U.S. who kept Gmail accounts and were being investigated by the U.S.
"Knowing that you were subjects of an investigation allows them to take steps to destroy information, get people out of the country," a former official told the paper.
Mountain View, Calif.-based Google declined to comment about the report.
Google initially disclosed the hack, dubbed the "Aurora" attack, in 2010, but it didn't say the target of the attack appeared to be the secret database of court orders. Google said the hackers stole the source code for its search engine and targeted email accounts of Chinese activists.
"The Chinese government prohibits online criminal offenses of all forms, including cyber attack and cyber espionage, and has done what it can to combat such activities in accordance with Chinese laws," a Chinese Embassy spokesman, Yuan Gao, told the paper. "We've heard all kinds of allegations but have not seen any hard evidence or proof."
Google alerted the FBI about the breach of the sensitive database soon after detecting it, but the company denied access to an FBI supervisory agent working on Chinese cyber espionage cases who sought to conduct a national security investigation at the company's headquarters, the Post reported.
Meanwhile, a Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) exec recently said Chinese hackers targeted the company's servers in a similar fashion, searching for accounts that were under surveillance by the U.S.
However, Microsoft disputed that account in an emailed statement.
"The so-called 'Aurora' attacks did not breach the Microsoft network," said Matt Thomlinson, general manager of trustworthy computing and security at Microsoft.